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Planetary Gear Motor 12VDC for Office Automation: Articulating TV Mount
A complete DC Gear Motor Assembly. ISL delivered a complete drop-in assembly to help speed up the customer’s assembly process.
Overview
One of our current customers, a leading manufacturer of automation technology for the home and workplace, had been building a custom dc planetary gear motor 12v drive module for a conference room articulating TV mount.
Challenge
There were a few different challenges with this particular project that ISL was able to overcome. Managing the manufacturing of this planetary gear motor 12vdc assembly required sourcing multiple components, including the tooling of 3 unique pieces, two of aluminum die-casting and one injection molded plastic, from several factories. A kit of 14 unique parts had to be ordered, received, inspected, inventoried and scheduled for production, processed in multiple steps on an assembly line, then inspected, tested and inventoried once again for future integration into a master product.
Solution
At the time, ISL was the supplier of the dc planetary gear motor 12v for this articulating mount drive module. When we discovered that the customer was adding these additional components and production steps to complete the module, we recommended that ISL take over the management and production of the entire custom planetary gear motor 12vdc assembly. This included sourcing, tooling, assembling, testing, inspecting, packaging and warehousing the completed module. This ensured that the customer could receive a complete installable module on their assembly line at the exact time their master product was scheduled for production. The realized cost efficiencies, both in time and overhead, were substantial.
Conclusion
ISL took over full management of a planetary gear motor 12VDC assembly that a customer had originally sourced only the base motor for, expanding its role to include tooling, sourcing, assembling, testing, inspecting, packaging, and warehousing every component in the module. By coordinating the fourteen unique parts and three custom tooled pieces required for this conference room TV mount drive module, ISL ensured the customer received a complete, ready to install assembly exactly when needed on their production line. This consolidation eliminated the time and overhead the customer had been spending managing multiple suppliers and assembly steps in house. This project shows how ISL can grow from a component supplier into a full assembly partner to simplify a customer's supply chain.